14-letter words containing p, o, l, n, e, c
- phenotypically — the observable constitution of an organism.
- phenylcarbinol — benzyl alcohol.
- photoluminesce — to produce photoluminescence
- phthalocyanine — Also called metal-free phthalocyanine. a blue-green pigment, C 3 2 H 1 8 N 8 , derived from phthalic anhydride.
- pickled onions — onions which have been preserved in vinegar or brine
- pinealectomize — to perform a pinealectomy on (a person or animal)
- pinhole camera — a simple camera in which an aperture provided by a pinhole in an opaque diaphragm is used in place of a lens.
- planar process — a method of producing diffused junctions in semiconductor devices. A pattern of holes is etched into an oxide layer formed on a silicon substrate, into which impurities are diffused through the holes
- planetological — involving or relating to planetology
- platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
- play one's ace — to use one's best weapon or resource
- plesiochronous — (communications) Nearly synchronised, a term describing a communication system where transmitted signals have the same nominal digital rate but are synchronised on different clocks. According to ITU-T standards, corresponding signals are plesiochronous if their significant instants occur at nominally the same rate, with any variation in rate being constrained within specified limits.
- plumbosolvency — the ability to dissolve lead
- pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
- poetic licence — If someone such as a writer or film director uses poetic licence, they break the usual rules of language or style, or they change the facts, in order to create a particular effect.
- poetic license — license or liberty taken by a poet, prose writer, or other artist in deviating from rule, conventional form, logic, or fact, in order to produce a desired effect.
- point calimere — a cape on the SE coast of India, on the Palk Strait
- poison hemlock — hemlock (defs 1, 3).
- polar distance — codeclination.
- polar sequence — a series of stars in the vicinity of the N celestial pole whose accurately determined magnitudes serve as the standard for visual and photographic magnitudes of stars
- polemoniaceous — belonging to the Polemoniaceae, the phlox family of plants.
- police station — police headquarters for a particular district, from which police officers are dispatched and to which persons under arrest are brought.
- policy science — a branch of the social sciences concerned with the formulation and implementation of policy in bureaucracies, etc
- polynucleotide — a sequence of nucleotides, as in DNA or RNA, bound into a chain.
- popcorn flower — a plant, Plagiobothrys nothofulvus, of the borage family, native to the western U.S., having coiled clusters of small white flowers.
- porcelain ware — articles made of porcelain, such as plates and cups
- postadolescent — growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful.
- potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
- prairie falcon — a North American falcon, Falco mexicanus, grayish-brown above and white barred with brown below.
- pre-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
- pre-conclusion — the end or close; final part.
- preadolescence — the period preceding adolescence, usually designated as the years from 10 to 13.
- preapplication — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
- precalculation — the act or process of calculating; computation.
- preconcertedly — in a preconcerted or preplanned manner
- preconsonantal — immediately preceding a consonant.
- precontractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
- prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
- price controls — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
- princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
- prosencephalon — the forebrain.
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- psychoanalyses — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
- pyelonephritic — of or relating to an inflammation of the pelvis and renal parenchyma
- re-application — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
- recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
- rhinencephalon — the part of the cerebrum containing the olfactory structures.